ODE TO ALBA

“There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land.”

~ Aldo Leopold

𝕆𝔻𝔼 𝕋𝕆 𝔸𝕃𝔹𝔸 (2025) traces a journey through Argyll and Bute on the west coast of Scotland, tracing the magic and mysticism of this wild and enigmatic land, once home to ancient Celtic traditions and rituals. 

Captured on 35mm film, these photographs draw on the Gaelic phrase fighte fuaighte, meaning 'woven into and through each other', exploring the interconnection between the self, nature, and the eternal. Alba is the Scottish Gaelic word for Scotland, often used endearingly to refer to homeland.

Taken on meditative walks through lichen-speckled woodlands, windswept sea lochs, grasslands, and peat bogs, the images document sites long associated with access to the Otherworld. Featured are the Ballochroy Standing Stones - three megaliths aligned to the midsummer and winter solstices - and St Columba’s Cave, which is known as a place of worship and portal to the Otherworld, the realm of gods, spirits, and the dead.